Tag: Colombia

• Wednesday, September 29th 2021 - 08:23 UTC

  Colombian ELN guerrilla leader “Fabián” reported dead

  

  Colombian news outlets Tuesday reported the death of Ogli Ángel Padilla Romero, also known as “Fabián,” one of the commanders of the National Liberation Army (ELN), the last guerrilla group still active in the country.

• Wednesday, September 22nd 2021 - 09:05 UTC

  Killings of social leaders in Colombia total 124 so far in 2021

  

  Monday's killing of five social leaders in Colombia have increased this year's figures to 124, the Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz) has reported.

• Monday, September 6th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  WTO resumes negotiations on fisheries subsidies; agreed text should be ready by December

  

  World Trade Organization country members resumed this month fisheries subsidies negotiations following the August break and the chair of the rounds Ambassador Santiago Wills from Colombia said the objective was to produce a clean text on fisheries subsidy rules ahead of the 12th ministerial conference next December.

• Wednesday, September 1st 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  Ecuador wants to become full member of the Pacific Alliance

  

  Ecuador has requested to become a full member of the Pacific Alliance, an issue that was discussed by the country's president Guillermo Lasso during a recent visit to his Mexican peer Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Mexico allegedly announced its full support for Ecuador to join the four countries, Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile block, considered the most dynamic of the Americas.

• Wednesday, September 1st 2021 - 08:58 UTC

  WHO names coronavirus Colombian strain “Mu” and says it is “of interest”

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified a new SARS-Cov-2 variant which has been named “Mu” and was first detected in Colombia last January.

• Saturday, August 21st 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Investors wary of South American debt in local currencies

  

  South American debt in local currency has become a painful experience for international investors, with little signals of relief and reversal of the situation.

• Monday, August 2nd 2021 - 07:46 UTC

  Duque says Colombia willing to sort out together with Panama the crisis of migrants trying to reach the US or Canada

  

  Colombian President Iván Duque has called on Panama's authorities to find a negotiated solution to the crisis of migrants stranded at the border on their way to the United States.

• Friday, July 23rd 2021 - 09:38 UTC

  Venezuela rejects accusations of “hosting” armed groups that attempt against Colombian institutions

  

  Venezuelan foreign minister Jorge Arreaza rejected accusations from the Colombian government regarding the recent attack on the helicopter of president Ivan Duque in the city of Cúcuta and claimed Bogotá is using his country to hide the tragedy of its neighbour.

• Thursday, July 22nd 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  As in the Falklands, Colombian children in rural areas taught to identify mines and unexploded ordnance

  

  As happened during decades in the Falkland Islands, children in rural Colombia are being taught how to identify landmines and ordnance planted near their villages by the several guerrilla groups that ravaged the country during the half-century-long insurrection.

• Wednesday, July 21st 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Demonstrators back to the streets of Colombia on Independence Day to push for reforms

  

  Colombian demonstrators took once again Tuesday to the streets of the country's biggest cities such as Bogotá, Cali, Medellín, Barranquilla, Cartagena and Manizales to step up their demands against the Government of Iván Duque during the Independence Day holiday.